Getting to Know You! Media Modern Technology (Lesson 1:Advanced)

More getting to know activities but this time with a class of young adults,level advanced.
Began the class with a Premier Skill video of Premier League football fans introducing themselves and then the students intoduced themselves.
The girls gave quite a full
introduction but the boys were a bit too brief.

Did a media technology questionnaire and then a brsinstorming of what they knew about the CAE exam;two of the students were interested in taking the exam at Christmas.
The students did 'Are you a good listener ?' activity and then a speaking activity.

Finished the lesson with the Premier Skills fans talking about the favourite words;before I'd elicited the students'favourite words and then compares with the fans in the video.
From the book Reflective Teaching in Second Language Classrooms,Richards,J.C.,in the chapter,approaches to classroom investigation,some important procedures are recommended:
Bailey 1990,Porter et al.1990,Walker 1985 state that it's important to make entries on a regular basis and immediately spend time after the lesson in writing up about the lesson
In addition to review the journal entries as some things which were not obviously apparent might appear so later on.

On page 16 Richards,J.C. mentions some reflection questions to guide thé writing of the journal:
What did you set out to teach?
Were you able to accomplish your goals?
What teaching materisls did you use?
What grouping arrangements did you use?

Did anything amusing or unusual occur?
Did you discover anything new?
Did students contribute actively to the lesson?
Were the students challenged by the lesson?
What do you think the students really learned from the lesson?
What did they like most about the lesson?
What didn't they respond to?




The students who interacted most were the Syrian girl, and Nour and a few other girls.
In the group activity of discussing the results of the questionnaire Ahmed was the spokes person,even though he'd seemed a bit reluctant to speak at the beginning of the lesson.
In the other group it was another boy who was the spokes person.
In the class there were a couple of girls who were quiet.